How old were you when you left home?

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i was 18

17. My parents divorced within 18 months as they'd lost their whipping boy and had nothing left to hold them together.

18

I was kicked out at 18

Although I moved back home for a bit when I was thirty (break up and saving money), moved out again, then moved back in with my parents with DH and DD when I was 31. We bought a house and have now moved out permanently at the age of 32! Lots of moving about 😅

It was 1999 and 100% mortgages were a thing. Bought a house with my then boyfriend for a whopping £42,500.

18. I went to London to study, on a totally inadequate grant (as I quickly found).

No parental support and no student loans available so I worked five evenings a week in a pub while studying.

Thankfully the pubs shut at 10.30 under old licensing law or it wouldn't have worked.

18- uni- back for a year at 21 to save for PGCE then went away and never lived there again (did come home for holidays though which was lovely)

18. Went to uni but never went back in holidays and moved in with boyfriend, now DH, in second year.

16, nearly 17. Moved into tied accommodation with my job.

17

18 - after years of boarding school & parents moved soon after I started so their new place (different country) was never reallyy home as such (army brat, home is actually where the family is rather than the place)
So effectively in many ways much earlier

18, returned at 20 for 6 months and then left again - that was it.

23

25

17, for university. Had a brief stint back at 22ish after graduating for around 6 months.

17

28 and husband was 30 :) what can i say, we were both happy living at home, saved money, and bought a house.

I was 18. I was supposed to be travelling around the world for a year and I planned to come home at 19. I ended up travelling for 7 years and by that point, I was independent enough not to want to move home.

30

52 and no, I don't regret it! I loved living in my parents' large house and garden, and latterly looked after my elderly mother.

17 never moved back

21, I eeked it out by going to the local uni.

18

16 first time, just turned 26 the last time in 2016; I was a typical millennial boomeranger.

16 for boarding school and between then and end of uni at 21 I was only around in the holidays or on visits. Then stayed at home for a year to save whilst doing part time work and volunteering to meet uni PGCE course requirements before back out to uni for a PGCE at 22 with no intention to really return... but I had a mini breakdown. I am forever grateful for the time I spent at home, rebuilding myself between 23-26 and it was nice and needed- and I used to sublet during the summers as a favour to a mate and to give the DPs a break, but as soon as I had a decent enough paying job, a savings cushion and my confidence back, I went and was determined to stay away.

I managed it bar a 1 month end of rental gap over Christmas when buying my flat at 29. It was Dec 2019 so as much as we drove each other crazy, I am so glad for that time looking back now and knowing the pandemic was round the corner!

18.feel sorry for young people now. So expensive to move out, hard to rent, massive deposits. Have to be responsible and serious from young and/or live in the same place with parents. I thought my bedsit at £105 a month was expensive (1994). Was grotty as fuck but was mine and my boyfriend's. I then moved places about 15 times and lived in 4 cities and 3 countries. Great times. Such freedom.